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+// Copyright 2015 The go-ethereum Authors
+// This file is part of the go-ethereum library.
+//
+// The go-ethereum library is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+// it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+// (at your option) any later version.
+//
+// The go-ethereum library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+// GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+//
+// You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+// along with the go-ethereum library. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+/*
+
+Package rpc implements bi-directional JSON-RPC 2.0 on multiple transports.
+
+It provides access to the exported methods of an object across a network or other I/O
+connection. After creating a server or client instance, objects can be registered to make
+them visible as 'services'. Exported methods that follow specific conventions can be
+called remotely. It also has support for the publish/subscribe pattern.
+
+RPC Methods
+
+Methods that satisfy the following criteria are made available for remote access:
+
+ - method must be exported
+ - method returns 0, 1 (response or error) or 2 (response and error) values
+ - method argument(s) must be exported or builtin types
+ - method returned value(s) must be exported or builtin types
+
+An example method:
+
+ func (s *CalcService) Add(a, b int) (int, error)
+
+When the returned error isn't nil the returned integer is ignored and the error is sent
+back to the client. Otherwise the returned integer is sent back to the client.
+
+Optional arguments are supported by accepting pointer values as arguments. E.g. if we want
+to do the addition in an optional finite field we can accept a mod argument as pointer
+value.
+
+ func (s *CalcService) Add(a, b int, mod *int) (int, error)
+
+This RPC method can be called with 2 integers and a null value as third argument. In that
+case the mod argument will be nil. Or it can be called with 3 integers, in that case mod
+will be pointing to the given third argument. Since the optional argument is the last
+argument the RPC package will also accept 2 integers as arguments. It will pass the mod
+argument as nil to the RPC method.
+
+The server offers the ServeCodec method which accepts a ServerCodec instance. It will read
+requests from the codec, process the request and sends the response back to the client
+using the codec. The server can execute requests concurrently. Responses can be sent back
+to the client out of order.
+
+An example server which uses the JSON codec:
+
+ type CalculatorService struct {}
+
+ func (s *CalculatorService) Add(a, b int) int {
+	return a + b
+ }
+
+ func (s *CalculatorService) Div(a, b int) (int, error) {
+	if b == 0 {
+		return 0, errors.New("divide by zero")
+	}
+	return a/b, nil
+ }
+
+ calculator := new(CalculatorService)
+ server := NewServer()
+ server.RegisterName("calculator", calculator")
+
+ l, _ := net.ListenUnix("unix", &net.UnixAddr{Net: "unix", Name: "/tmp/calculator.sock"})
+ for {
+	c, _ := l.AcceptUnix()
+	codec := v2.NewJSONCodec(c)
+	go server.ServeCodec(codec, 0)
+ }
+
+Subscriptions
+
+The package also supports the publish subscribe pattern through the use of subscriptions.
+A method that is considered eligible for notifications must satisfy the following
+criteria:
+
+ - method must be exported
+ - first method argument type must be context.Context
+ - method argument(s) must be exported or builtin types
+ - method must have return types (rpc.Subscription, error)
+
+An example method:
+
+ func (s *BlockChainService) NewBlocks(ctx context.Context) (rpc.Subscription, error) {
+ 	...
+ }
+
+When the service containing the subscription method is registered to the server, for
+example under the "blockchain" namespace, a subscription is created by calling the
+"blockchain_subscribe" method.
+
+Subscriptions are deleted when the user sends an unsubscribe request or when the
+connection which was used to create the subscription is closed. This can be initiated by
+the client and server. The server will close the connection for any write error.
+
+For more information about subscriptions, see https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/RPC-PUB-SUB.
+
+Reverse Calls
+
+In any method handler, an instance of rpc.Client can be accessed through the
+ClientFromContext method. Using this client instance, server-to-client method calls can be
+performed on the RPC connection.
+*/
+package rpc